BROOKLINE, MASS. (WHDH) – Brookline police are investigating the placement of anti-Semitic stickers similar to those recently seen outside Harvard Hillel in Cambridge.
The stickers in Brookline, which like those at Harvard show the Israeli flag with a swastika replacing the Star of David and the message “Stop Funding Israeli Terrorism”, were located on upper Harvard Street.
“Most of the stickers were located on public property (light poles and street signs), but there were several located on the window of a private business,” Brookline police said in a statement. “In total there were 15 stickers on public property and 3 on private property.”
Stickers were removed as evidence, with the remainder removed by the public works department. Those on private property had already been removed when authorities moved to remove the rest.
Bernard Greene, chair of the Brookline Select Board, said the images “bring to the surface painful memories and the scars left by a millennia of …